Black Dragon Fire

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occurrence in taiga

...period between 1981 and 1989 an estimated 3 million hectares (7.4 million acres) burned annually in the Soviet Union, almost all of which occurred within the taiga region of Russia. The so-called
Black Dragon Fire of 1987 in China and Russia may have been the largest single fire in the world in the past several hundred years. During the 20th century about 1 million hectares of taiga in Canada...